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28Mar/24Off

The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI

... The new policy from the White House Office of Management and Budget will guide AI use across the federal government. It requires more transparency as to how the government uses AI and also calls for more development of the technology within federal agencies. The policy sees the administration trying to strike a balance between mitigating risks from deeper use of AI—the extent of which are not known—and using AI tools to solve existential threats like climate change and disease. ...

Countries around the world are moving to regulate AI. The EU voted in December to pass its AI Act, a measure that governs the creation and use of AI technologies, and formally adopted it earlier this month. China, too, is working on comprehensive AI regulation.

See the full story here; https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-new-guardrails-government-use-of-ai/

27Mar/24Off

Marissa Mayer’s startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn’t sure what to think

... It’s tempting to dismiss the 15-person outfit as out of touch. But Mayer may be onto something with Sunshine, and that’s nostalgia. Throwback tech is all the rage these days. Further, while most Silicon Valley startups focus on the newest new thing, America is getting older, as the U.S. Census Bureau declared last year. Mayer says Sunshine is tackling problems for people “of all ages,” but targeting a slightly older demographic that gravitates toward the familiar would be a smart move. Older Americans now account for a record share of spending. They have the time to socialize and take pictures. Sunshine’s interface is even steeped in the same purple hue that was long associated with Yahoo, which she famously led for five years beginning in 2012. ...

 “The core thesis has always been to take the mundane and make it magical.” ...

See the full post here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/marissa-mayers-startup-just-rolled-out-apps-for-group-photo-sharing-and-event-planning-and-the-internet-isnt-sure-what-to-think/?utm_medium=TCnewsletter&tpcc=TCdailynewsletter

27Mar/24Off

Fetch.ai, Ocean Protocol and SingularityNET Unite to Create Artificial Superintelligence Alliance

SingularityNET (SNET), the world’s first decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) network, Fetch.ai, a Web3 platform for the new AI economy, and Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange platform to protect data, today announced the launch of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance. The creation of the largest open-sourced, decentralized network through a multi-billion token merger is a major step that accelerates the race to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The Alliance is the brainchild of three leading minds in decentralized AI. Dr. Ben Goertzel, renowned as the “Father of AGI”, founded SNET as a blockchain-based marketplace and framework for AI services. DeepMind founding investor Humayun Sheikh built Fetch.ai as a decentralized multi-agent platform to deploy and commercialize AI applications. Trent McConaghy, the architect of the AI-based software that most chip designers use to drive Moore’s Law, formed Ocean Protocol to provide a platform for data exchange and the seamless trade of tokenized data assets.

See the full story here: https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/fetch-ai-ocean-protocol-and-singularitynet-unite-to-create-artificial-superintelligence-alliance

27Mar/24Off

New method generates AI images 30x faster

The Rundown: Researchers at MIT just introduced a new method called ‘Distribution Matching Distillation’ — enabling faster AI image generation while maintaining the quality of the original model.
The details:
DMD distills the knowledge of a multi-step model (like Stable Diffusion) into a faster model that generates images in a single step.The method utilizes two diffusion models as guides to train the new, fast model, ensuring stability and consistency. In tests, DMD generated images 30 times faster than Stable Diffusion while maintaining or surpassing the quality level of outputs.
Why it matters: By dramatically reducing the computational cost and time required for high-quality image generation, DMD could unlock new possibilities for tools like real-time visual editing, design tools, drug discovery, and 3D modeling applications.

See the full story here: https://news.mit.edu/2024/ai-generates-high-quality-images-30-times-faster-single-step-0321?utm_source=www.therundown.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=apple-s-ai-master-plan

26Mar/24Off

Book – AI in Museums

"AI in Museums" is a free downloadable collection of papers on the topic.

25Mar/24Off

‘Music off the Wall’: The Music Center unveils its first AR art exhibit

... Presented by The Music Center, “Music off the Wall: An EyeJack Experience” by Campbell’s art and technology company, Eyejack, transforms the Jerry Moss Plaza and Plaza Gallery into an AR adventure. The 16 digital artworks with accompanying music come to life through smartphone lenses in this free exhibit, which will be on view until Saturday, May 4.  ...

“Music off the Wall” will be the first in a series of local artist residencies at the Jerry Moss Plaza. Each artist or group will take over the plaza for several months with free reign; the only requirement is to “animate” the space with participatory and digital elements, explained Kamal Sinclair, senior manager of The Music Center’s Digital Innovative Initiative. ...

The digital artworks were previously exhibited in EyeJack’s Prosthetic Reality V.1 and V.2. collection, the world’s first NFT art book. In 2022, more than 60 artists, animators and sound designers from around the world converged to showcase the unprecedented book. As the exhibit’s name suggests, the selected works from the project each have a musical element. ...

“Music Off the Wall”

WHEN: Noon to 11 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, 

through Saturday, May 4

WHERE: Jerry Moss Plaza and Plaza Gallery at The Music Center, 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

COST: Free

See the full story here: http://www.ladowntownnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/music-off-the-wall-the-music-center-unveils-its-first-ar-art-exhibit/article_5173807e-e8a4-11ee-988e-07e98bc2576f.html

25Mar/24Off

Ex-Google Gemini guy heads Samsung’s AGI venture, eyes OpenAI and Meta collaborations

... Samsung is reportedly reassessing various aspects of chip architecture to significantly reduce the power consumption required to run LLMs. The company's targets for enhancement include memory design, lightweight model optimization, high-speed interconnects, and advanced packaging.

Additionally, Samsung plans to introduce new chip designs from the AGI Computing Lab through rapid iterations. These designs aim to provide sufficient performance for continuously growing models while helping to save power consumption and costs. ...

See the full story here: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20240325PD210/agi-google-ai-device-solutions-division-east-asia-ic-design-distribution-it+ce-meta-openai-samsung-server-ipc-cloud-computing-iot-software-big-data-south-korea.html

25Mar/24Off

OpenAI Promoting AI Text-to-Video Model Sora to Entertainment Industry

OpenAI is reportedly working to promote the integration of its unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-video model, Sora, into film production.

The company is scheduling meetings with Hollywood studios, media executives and talent agencies in Los Angeles to foster partnerships, Bloomberg reported Friday (March 22).

The meetings are part of a broader outreach initiative by OpenAI, according to the report. In February, the startup’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, held introductory talks in Hollywood to demonstrate Sora’s capabilities. ...

See the full story here: https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2024/openai-promoting-ai-text-to-video-model-sora-to-entertainment-industry/

21Mar/24Off

Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content

... A group of researchers backed by the French government have released what is thought to be the largest AI training dataset composed entirely of text that is in the public domain. And the nonprofit Fairly Trained announced that it has awarded its first certification for a large language model built without copyright infringement, showing that technology like that behind ChatGPT can be built in a different way to the AI industry’s contentious norm. ...

Today, Fairly Trained announced it has certified its first large language model. It’s called KL3M and was developed by Chicago-based legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures, using a curated training dataset of legal, financial, and regulatory documents.

The company’s cofounder, Jillian Bommarito, says the decision to train KL3M in this way stemmed from the company’s “risk-averse” clients like law firms. ...

Although the dataset is tiny (around 350 billion tokens, or units of data) compared to those compiled by OpenAI and others that have scraped the internet en masse, Bommarito says the KL3M model performed far better than expected, something she attributes to how carefully the data had been vetted beforehand. ...

On Wednesday, researchers released what they claim is the largest available AI dataset for language models composed purely of public domain content. Common Corpus, as it is called, is a collection of text roughly the same size as the data used to train OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generation model and has been posted to the open source AI platform Hugging Face. ...

The Authors Guild, along with actors and radio artists labor union SAG-AFTRA and a few additional professional groups, was recently named an official supporter of Fairly Trained. ...

See the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/proof-you-can-train-ai-without-slurping-copyrighted-content/

21Mar/24Off

What it means for nations to have “AI sovereignty”

... These language models are trained in English, but there’s 13 Indian scripts, and within that there’s probably a couple of hundred languages or language variants. So the cultural context for these languages is different. We do think it deserves an effort to have cultural context and nuances, like in India: You don’t speak Hindi and you don’t speak English, you mix the two, what’s sometimes called Hinglish. So those kinds of things have to be taken into account. Then you go to the other level. Will India rely on something that the technology could be banned, like a U.S. model? ...

Jamali: “Diversity in the kinds of algorithms.” What kind of diversity are we talking about?

Khosla: If you take the human brain, sometimes we do pattern matching, and there’s all kinds of emergent behavior that emerge from that. And [large language models] are going to keep going. ... But it’s possible there’s other approaches, what’s called sometimes neurosymbolic computing. ...

See the full story here: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/what-it-means-for-nations-to-have-ai-sovereignty/